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Webb looked at nearly 9000 star clusters in four different nearby galaxies and its data shows that more massive star clusters emerge more quickly from the clouds they are born in. Learning about star formation helps us understand galactic evolution, the dynamics within a galaxy, as well as how and where planets form.
This near-infrared image shows a section of one of the spiral arms of Messier 51 (M51), one of the four galaxies in this study. Thick star-forming gas is shown here in red and orange. Within these gas complexes, each tens to hundreds of light years across, Webb reveals the dense, extremely bright clusters of massive stars that have just recently formed. The countless stars strewn across the arm of the galaxy, many of which would be invisible to our eyes behind layers of dust, are also laid bare in infrared light.
All the star clusters observed as a part of this study were at different evolutionary stages: young clusters just starting to emerge from their natal clouds of gas, clusters that had partially dispersed the gas (both from Webb images), and fully unobstructed clusters visible in optical light (found in Hubble images). With Webb’s ability to peer inside the gas clouds, scientists were able to then estimate the mass and age of each cluster. The most massive clusters had fully emerged and dispersed the clouds of gas after around five million years, while less massive clusters were between seven and eight million years old when they emerged from their nurseries. This finding impacts theories on planet formation. When gas is cleared away quickly within a star cluster, protoplanetary disks around stars are exposed to harsh ultraviolet radiation from stars sooner. This reduces the amount of gas from the nebula they can pull in, and gives them fewer opportunities to grow dust and create planets.
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Pedrini, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team
Image description: A large, long portion of one of the spiral arms in galaxy M51. Red-orange, clumpy filaments of gas and dust that stretch in a chain from left to right comprise the arm. Shining cyan bubbles light up parts of the gas clouds from within, and gaps expose bright star clusters in these bubbles as glowing white dots. The whole image is dotted with small stars. A faint blue glow around the arm colors the otherwise dark background.
date stamped on slide, April 1972, from a Kodachrome slide box addressed to Morgan Kane, 1st West 57 Street, New York City, handwritten on slide box, "Mod big print dress"
SAN FRANCISCO (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - Consumenten hebben fors meer ritten geboekt via Uber in het eerste kwartaal van 2026. Daarmee steeg ook de waarde van het aantal boekingen en de omzet van het bedrijf.
Het totale aantal ritten steeg van iets meer dan 3 miljard naar ruim 3,6 miljard. Onder ritten verstaat het bedrijf het aantal voltooide taxiritten en maaltijdbezorgopdrachten van consumenten. In totaal werd er voor 53,7 miljard dollar in het eerste kwartaal geboekt via het platform, een stijging van 25 procent. Dit omvat ritten, bezorgopdrachten en inkomsten van chauffeurs en winkeliers, maar exclusief fooien.
De omzet van Uber zelf steeg met 14 procent van 11,5 miljard naar 13,2 miljard dollar.
Topman Dara Khosrowshahi gaat ervan uit dat het bedrijf een goed jaar tegemoet gaat. Dit komt volgens hem vooral doordat de kernactiviteit in de Verenigde Staten verder zal versnellen.
GENÈVE (ANP/AFP) - De directeur-generaal van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, denkt niet dat de dodelijke uitbraak van het hantavirus op cruiseschip Hondius lijkt op het begin van de covidpandemie. Dat zegt hij tegen persbureau AFP.
Drie opvarenden van de MV Hondius kwamen om het leven, vijf anderen zijn ziek. Bij drie van hen is vooralsnog het hantavirus bevestigd. De WHO meldde eerder op woensdag dat het algehele risico voor de volksgezondheid laag blijft. De organisatie zegt de gezondheid van passagiers en bemanningsleden nauwlettend in de gaten te houden.
Drie patiënten waarbij een hantavirusinfectie vermoed wordt, zijn woensdag van het schip geëvacueerd en onderweg naar Nederland voor medische zorg. Het gaat om een Nederlander, een Brit en een Duitser.
De Hondius wil zaterdag aanmeren in Tenerife. Daarna worden de opvarenden zonder symptomen overgebracht naar hun thuisland, meldde de Spaanse minister van Volksgezondheid.
GENÈVE (ANP/AFP) - De directeur-generaal van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, denkt niet dat de dodelijke uitbraak van het hantavirus op cruiseschip Hondius lijkt op het begin van de covidpandemie. Dat zegt hij tegen persbureau AFP.
Drie opvarenden van de MV Hondius kwamen om het leven, vijf anderen zijn ziek. Bij drie van hen is vooralsnog het hantavirus bevestigd. De WHO meldde eerder op woensdag dat het algehele risico voor de volksgezondheid laag blijft. De organisatie zegt de gezondheid van passagiers en bemanningsleden nauwlettend in de gaten te houden.
Drie patiënten waarbij een hantavirusinfectie vermoed wordt, zijn woensdag van het schip geëvacueerd en onderweg naar Nederland voor medische zorg. Het gaat om een Nederlander, een Brit en een Duitser.
De Hondius wil zaterdag aanmeren in Tenerife. Daarna worden de opvarenden zonder symptomen overgebracht naar hun thuisland, meldde de Spaanse minister van Volksgezondheid.
PARIJS (ANP) - Een Frans vliegdekschip en ondersteunende oorlogsbodems maken zich op voor hulp bij het vrijmaken van de Straat van Hormuz. De Charles de Gaulle vaart alvast richting de zeestraat om meteen te kunnen beginnen als de Verenigde Staten en Iran stoppen met vechten, laat het ministerie van Defensie weten.
Het vlooteskader is woensdag het Suezkanaal opgevaren, aldus Defensie. "Op weg naar de zuidelijke Rode Zee en de Golf van Aden." Daar kan het "de regionale situatie herbeoordelen in afwachting van de start van het initiatief", luidt het in een persbericht. Frankrijk voert samen met het Verenigd Koninkrijk een groep landen aan die wil helpen de scheepvaart weer op gang te krijgen zodra er een bestand is.
De Charles de Gaulle werd tot een paar dagen geleden beschermd door het Nederlandse fregat Zr.Ms. Evertsen. Dat is inmiddels op weg naar huis. Het fregat Zr.Ms. De Ruyter, dat mede om te kunnen assisteren in het Midden-Oosten oostwaarts is gestuurd, is nu in India.
ROME (ANP) - Botic van de Zandschulp heeft de tweede ronde van het tennistoernooi in Rome bereikt. De 30-jarige Nederlander was met sterk spel in twee sets te sterk voor de Fransman Alexandre Müller: 7-5 6-3.
Van de Zandschulp, die vorige week het tennistoernooi van Madrid oversloeg omdat hij naar eigen zeggen niet fit genoeg was, kende tegen de nummer 105 van de wereld weinig problemen. Dankzij een late break trok de Nederlandse nummer 54 op de wereldranglijst de eerste set naar zich toe.
In de tweede set brak hij de 29-jarige Fransman twee keer en besliste de wedstrijd na anderhalf uur door zijn tweede matchpoint te benutten.
Jesper de Jong
Van de Zandschulp treft in de volgende ronde Arthur Rinderknech uit Frankrijk.
Later op woensdag neemt Jesper de Jong het in de Italiaanse hoofdstad op tegen de Portugees Nuno Borges. Tallon Griekspoor, de andere Nederlandse deelnemer, heeft voor de eerste ronde een bye.
Wie kilo's kwijtraakt dankzij Ozempic of Wegovy hoopt op complimenten, maar krijgt vaker het tegenovergestelde. Een nieuwe Amerikaanse studie laat zien dat GLP-1-gebruikers sociaal harder worden afgestraft dan mensen die níets aan hun gewicht doen.
GLP-1-medicijnen zoals Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro en Zepbound worden in de media bejubeld als doorbraak in de strijd tegen overgewicht. Maar onderzoekers van [Rice University](https://news.rice.edu/news/2026/glp-1-paradox-rice-study-finds-weight-loss-drugs-may-carry-unexpected-stigma) ontdekten een onverwachte sociale prijs. In hun studie, deze week gepubliceerd in het I nternational Journal of Obesity] kregen GLP-1-gebruikers stelselmatig de hardste oordelen.
Lager dan wie niet afviel
Hoofdonderzoeker Erin Standen liet ruim 600 deelnemers een fictieve persoon beoordelen met drie verschillende gewichtsverhalen: afgevallen met een GLP-1, afgevallen met dieet en sport, of helemaal niet afgevallen. Op een zevenpuntsschaal voor sociale acceptatie scoorde de prikgebruiker een 4,99 — lager dan de persoon die níet afviel (5,25) en duidelijk lager dan de sporter (5,51), meldt StudyFinds. Ook op persoonlijkheidstrekken als 'lui' en 'ongedisciplineerd' werden GLP-1-gebruikers harder afgerekend.
Dik blijven wordt veroordeeld, afvallen met hulp óók.
"We verwachtten enige stigma, maar de omvang ervan verraste ons", aldus Standen. De boosdoener: het idee dat het medicijn een "easy way out" is. Wie weer aankomt na het stoppen met de pen — vaak door de kosten van zo'n 1.200 dollar per maand — krijgt er nóg een laag oordeel bovenop.
Damned if you do
De bevindingen sluiten aan bij eerder onderzoek van Georgetown University, dat aantoonde dat vooral witte vrouwen extra hard worden veroordeeld om GLP-1-gebruik. Met circa 18 procent van de Amerikaanse volwassenen die ooit zo'n middel gebruikte, dreigt een breed sociaal probleem. Standen pleit dan ook voor publiekscampagnes die uitleggen hoe GLP-1's biologisch werken — want voorlopig geldt: dik blijven wordt veroordeeld, afvallen met hulp óók.
ZWOLLE (ANP) - Het Openbaar Ministerie heeft woensdag bij de rechtbank in Zwolle vier jaar geëist tegen de 35-jarige Sana C., waarvan een jaar voorwaardelijk. De uit Woerden afkomstige vrouw heeft bekend dat zij als medewerkster van de rechtbank in Amsterdam gegevens uit de systemen voor geld heeft verkocht. Daarnaast zou ze een man voor bijna een ton hebben afgeperst, over een periode van twee jaar.
De vrouw verkocht de informatie aan een man met wie ze via een nicht in contact is gekomen. Deze man was verdachte van meerdere explosies en brandstichtingen en een beschieting van een woning in Waalwijk. C. werkte bij de informatiebalie van de rechtbank en had toegang tot diverse systemen. Ze is op 10 maart 2025 opgepakt, nadat de politie haar in een ander onderzoek op het spoor was gekomen.
De vrouw zegt dat zij de gegevens verkocht door een gokverslaving. De man die zij zou hebben afgeperst, was een 'gokmaatje'. Zij dreigde in duizenden chats de man zelf of zijn familie iets aan te doen.
DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Arbeidsinspectie heeft woensdag vier mensen uit Den Haag aangehouden, omdat ze mogelijk hebben gesjoemeld met 8 miljoen euro aan coronasteun. Tijdens de coronacrisis konden werkgevers met wie het slecht ging geld krijgen van de overheid om salarissen door te betalen.
Sommige ondernemers maakten misbruik van die maatregel. Tijdens de aanhoudingen woensdag deden speurders van de Arbeidsinspectie huiszoekingen en doorzoekingen van bedrijfspanden, in binnen- en buitenland. Daarbij vonden ze contant geld, luxe spullen en auto's. Ook is beslag gelegd op bankrekeningen en vastgoed.
De verdachten worden in verband gebracht met twee Haagse uitzendbureaus die onterecht coronasteun kregen. De bedrijven vroegen het geld aan vanwege omzetverlies, terwijl de omzet juist flink steeg en de aanvragers dit wisten. Omdat ze het geld ook doorsluisden, onder meer naar het buitenland, worden de vier eveneens verdacht van witwassen.
Circuit’s future is uncertain after Saudi withdrawal
Two-time major champion also criticizes PGA Tour
Bryson DeChambeau insists he would focus on his YouTube channel should LIV Golf not survive.
The future of the Saudi-backed breakaway remains in doubt after the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced plans to withdraw financing at the end of the year, having spent more than $5.4bn on the venture since 2022.
The restaurant drama dropped a special episode yesterday, without any warning. And it shows brief flashes of the magic that once made it so brilliant
A couple of years ago, a surprise episode of The Bear would have been one of the highlights of the year. The stressful, tightly compressed comedy-drama about a restaurant in Chicago hit television like a juggernaut when it launched. It felt like nothing else and it was all anyone could talk about.
How things have changed. Two disappointing seasons have taken all of the wind out of The Bear, so when it was announced that a special episode had dropped (before what is expected to be the final season this summer), you would have been justified to feel trepidatious.
Fan groups have called prices a ‘monumental betrayal’
Fifa collects 30% cut on resale markets
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has defended World Cup ticket prices, insisting that football’s global governing body was obliged to take advantage of US laws that allow tickets to be resold for thousands of dollars above face value.
Fifa has faced searing criticism over the cost of World Cup tickets, with fan organization Football Supporters Europe (FSE) calling the pricing structure “extortionate” and a “monumental betrayal”. FSE filed a lawsuit with the European Commission in March targeting Fifa over “excessive ticket prices” for the tournament.
For the past month the story of a man who discovered almost a million dollars worth of rare trading cards in a Texas dumpster has enthralled a niche subset of the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game community.
At the end of March, a man began to sell massive amounts of rare Yu-Gi-Oh cards online. He claimed he’d found them in the trash, but people in the community worried he’d stolen them. His posts on Facebook, TikTok, and eBay became erratic. He fought with people in the comments and said he’d made tens of thousands of dollars selling cards. Then his mom showed up on Facebook to defend him.
The seller spoke with 404 Media on condition that we not use his name while he secures legal counsel. He referred to the cards as “thrown away” and said they were found in a dumpster as part of a security breach involving a contractor. He said it “involves 500,000 bulk cards (including high-value Caitlin Clark and [Quarter Century Rare] stock and 400+ factory uncut sheets.” The seller said that he’d “filed formal reports with Konami’s legal department regarding the contractor’s negligence.”He did not respond to follow-up questions.
“The sale of uncut sheets is not allowed,” Konami, the company that owns Yu-Gi-Oh, told me in an email and did not respond to follow-up questions.
404 Media wasn’t able to confirm how the seller obtained them, but the uncut sheets of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, normally tightly controlled and highly valuable collector’s items, are real.
It all started on March 23 with a weird listing on eBay for a rare uncut sheet of a Blue Eyes Silver Dragon Yu-Gi-Oh card. Uncut sheets are a rarity in card collecting. A printer typically prints out a massive sheet of cards and then cuts them to size before packing them to send to distributors. Mistakes happen. Sometimes printers misalign trays, cut the cards wrong, or put text in the wrong place. And sometimes uncut sheets of cards without errors also find their way to the market.
The printer is supposed to destroy these mistakes, but some make it to market. When that happens they become collectors items worth thousands of dollars. Konami, the company behind Yu-Gi-Oh, controls the collector’s market on uncut sheets and gives out official 3x3 squares of them as prizes at tournaments. It’s strict about tracking down unofficially released uncut sheets and misprints and making sure the printer destroys them.
It was shocking, then, when the listings hit eBay, TikTok, and several uncut sheet groups on Facebook at the end of March. Photos and videos showed hundreds of uncut sheets and misprints. There were Minecraft cards and basketball cards, but most of the sheets were Yu-Gi-Oh. There were rare foils (called starlights in Yu-Gi-Oh), misprinted sheets, and rare reprints of old cards.
But the listings were odd. The pictures were often blurry and out of focus, the titles for the listings on eBay didn’t match what was being sold, and they were being sold for far less than they were worth.
“Man I've made over $60,000 off these f****** Yu-Gi-Oh cards out of the trash I'm fixing to go take a video of where I got these hoes from and let you hold it on that now you all pay the premium price when I asked me post off at one at a time."
“I actually purchased the first sheet that he had for sale,” ‘Nick’, a moderator for the Uncut Sheets Collectors Facebook group, told 404 Media. Nick spoke to us on the condition that we keep his anonymity because he says he has strict boundaries between his trading card life and a real world business he runs.
“He listed a Yu-Gi-Oh sheet, Blue Eyes Silver Dragon, uncut sheet. The title, it didn’t make any sense, it wasn’t the actual sheet he was selling, but it was the only sheet he had up for sale,” Nick said. “He wanted $1,000 for it. And at that time, I was like, ‘Wow, that’s a really good deal for that sheet.’ So I instantly bought it. At the time, I assumed he had won it from a tournament. I assumed it was obtained legitimately.”
Nick said that the man listing the sheets listed another uncut sheet the next day, also for $1,000, and he bought that one too. Nick assumed that the seller had more sheets and was just drip-feeding them onto auction sites so he sent him a message to find out how many were there.
“This is when he divulges that he has hundreds of sheets,” Nick said. “I’m like, alright, I’ll believe it when I see it. I ask him to send me a video. He sends me a video and, yup, he has hundreds of Yu-Gi-Oh sheets.”
Nick shared the video to the Uncut Sheets Collectors group. It showed the seller’s hand rifling through a large stack of uncut Yu-Gi-Oh sheets. “I’m still interested in the sheets, but once I saw the quantity that he has then it’s becoming more: ‘Well, he definitely didn’t get these from a legitimate source.’”
Konami and other trading card game companies like Wizards of the Coast are aggressive about controlling the flow of cards. In 2023, Wizards—which publishes Magic: The Gathering—sent the Pinkerton detective agency to the home of a YouTuber who had acquired 22 boxes of cards from an unreleased set.
Earlier in March, a brick and mortar store in Ohio called Table Top Gaming received a few hundred boxes of Yu-Gi-Oh cards from a distributor and found something strange inside. “The printing company packed the pallets with the test print sheets by mistake thinking they were just blank sheets. Pallets went to distro then me. I didn’t acquire them in any malicious way so I thought they were safe to sell, considered abandoned property because they were intended to be trashed,” Table Top Gaming owner Tyler Jedlicka told 404 Media.
Jedlicka says he posted the test print sheets online and Konami contacted him. The company wanted the sheets back. Konami runs the official Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments and angering them could mean hurting a brick and mortar business, no matter how rare and expensive a test print might be. “Once we confirmed in writing with [Konami] the blame isn’t put on us and that our status as an official tournament store won’t be affected we agreed to return them all,” Jedlicka said, adding that the whole thing was resolved without a major issue.
Image via Facebook.
So it’s odd that someone would be selling uncut sheets of Yu-Gi-Oh cards online without interference from Konami. The seller’s videos and eBay listings were also odd and his behavior online seemed erratic. He’d post a listing and then delete it soon after. The pictures of the cards were often blurry and off-kilter. “You would think it would be worth the 2 minutes to make a proper listing. Just take a good, centered photo showing the whole thing front and back. That’s all he really had to do and he literally couldn't,” Nick said.
At the end of March, the seller attempted to sell cards via an auction on TikTok live. The next day, he posted a Raffal link on his personal Facebook page. He wrote the “only way that I can legally get rid of my sheets is to raffle them off on Raffall.” Five days later he listed a rare card on eBay, then deleted it. Later he posted a picture of several single cards on his personal Facebook page then said they were for “local pickup only.”
Nick did receive the sheets he’d bought, but said they arrived in poor condition and he made a few videos in the Uncut Sheets Collectors group letting them know to be wary of the seller’s cards. Nick said he thought that would be the end of it, but then the seller showed up in the comments. “I'm still going just got a whole another load of them guarantee you ain't nobody going to step up and say I stole them,” the seller said in one comment.
“F****** stupid f*** I bet don't know you hoes getting none of this s***,” he said in another.
In a third comment, he gave a clue to where he might have gotten the cards. “I got him [sic] out of the trash.”
The seller insisted across multiple platforms in public posts that he’d found the cards in a dumpster. People in the Uncut Sheets group didn’t believe him and they peppered him with questions. Collectors began to snatch up his eBay listings and post the results. Some got what they’d paid for, others received their items damaged. When they’d ask for a partial refund, the seller would sometimes give them all their money back.
Nick kept updating the community on what was happening, capturing the seller’s posts across platforms and sharing them with the Uncut Sheets Collectors group. The group called it the Yugioh Dumpster Drama. Another member of the group began to cut together the seller’s listings and comments and set them to AI-generated songs.
“I thought that would be the end of the saga. He was gonna sell a bunch of Yu-Gi-Oh sheets. Cool,” Nick said. “That’s when his mom joined the chat.”
“Nick I suggest you take the video down with my son’s personal private information on it you have no right no business to be putting his past history up on the Internet like that has nothing to do with his Facebook or anything. I don’t know what your problem with him is but it needs to stop now,” the seller’s mother said in a post on the Uncut Sheet Collectors Facebook group.
Nick’s post did not include any of the seller’s details beyond what the seller himself had posted on eBay, TikTok, and Facebook.
“Okay let me ask everyone if ya’ll found the same thing that was found in the trash the uncut sheets the cards and stuff would you or would not not try to sell them?” the seller’s mother said in another post.
Image via Uncut Sheets Collectors Facebook group.
Nick began to assume the cards were stolen after the seller showed him the video of hundreds of uncut sheets. In various posts across multiple platforms and in a brief conversation with 404 Media, the seller presented contradicting facts about the cards. But one detail was always consistent. He always said he found them in a dumpster. His mother’s LinkedIn page lists her as the owner of a metal scraping business which maintains a small web presence.
Konami doesn’t have its own printers but instead contracts companies to print cards for it. One of those printers is Cartamundi, a Belgian company with a factory in Dallas. The seller’s mother’s scrapping business operates in a suburb of Dallas. A Dallas-area trading card collector who knows the seller told 404 Media that he believes the seller found the cards in a dumpster in a shopping center away from the Cartamundi printing factory.
“Man I've made over $60,000 off these f****** Yu-Gi-Oh cards out of the trash I'm fixing to go take a video of where I got these hoes from and let you hold it on that now you all pay the premium price when I asked me post off at one at a time,” the seller said in a public Facebook post on March 30.
According to Nick, the dumpster cards are worth far more. “I could have probably sold that stuff over the course of a decade for, probably, a million dollars,” he said. “So let’s say each sheet was worth approximately $2,000. Some of the miscut starlight or Quarter Century Rare sheets were probably worth $5,000. Some of the damaged non-foil sheets are probably worth $800. So if you have 400 sheets averaging $2,000 each, that’s at least $800,000 in revenue, not including other stuff he had.”
Before all the drama, Nick had asked the seller what he wanted for everything he’d found. “He wanted $15,000 or $16,000 and even with them being stolen and the potential of them being confiscated, for $15,000? I’ll be honest. It was tempting,” Nick said. “When somebody offers you $16,000 for something you know is worth a lot, it is very tempting.”
The seller’s acquaintance told 404 Media that the seller moved the bulk of the cards early on and sold many directly to card shops in the Dallas area. Nick said he’d heard a rumor the sheets went to major collectors. The seller isn’t talking anymore, Konami isn’t talking, and it’s unclear how many rare uncut and misprinted sheets are on the market now and how much the seller made from the whole venture.
The seller last posted on his TikTok page on March 31st. As of this writing there’s nothing for sale on his eBay account. On May 4, after almost a month of silence, he posted more pictures of uncut sheets on his personal Facebook page. “Back in business people leaked sheets up for grabs,” he said.
